anthropy, This meme is so much funnier when you know these are two completely unrelated portraits of Samuel Johnson ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson ) who appears to just have a tendency to make faces while getting painted
the original painting from the left part of the meme, where Samuel Jonhson (described as a "poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer" -- wikipedia) is reading something, something they probably did a lot
original painting from the right part of the meme picture, where Samuel Johnson is looking at the viewer. As earlier, the way they're depicted could be described as a mixture of "concern, anger, and disbelief", though it might also simply be their resting face posture, or the way they were looking at the artist at the time; probably hard to get a decisive answer on that now
another painting of Samuel Johnson, where they're sitting and looking ponderously in the distance, while holding their left hand on some written things, and holding a quill in their right hand that's resting on their knee
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